Post the most powerful, moving and beautiful music you know.

[Locut0s]

In the mood for something to really "hit" me. Something powerful yet also beautiful. Usually this would mean classical music IMO and classical is one of my favourite genres but I'm open to almost anything.

[MrScorpio]

1. You'll get this and like it.

[kentauros]

2. I just posted Beethoven's 9th on Lady Freedom Returns' thread,

so I'm going to have to find something else...


This has always been one of my favorites of Vangelis. It's tranquil, yet so lovely

[Ron Obvious]

3. Bach

Just off the top of my head, here's some J.S. Bach: Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639), which some may recognise from the 1972 Tarkovski film Solaris

[Whisp]

4. canta libre

[onehandle]

5. Waterloo Sunset or Golden Brown or Up The Junction

What can I say, I'm an Anglophile.

[sendero]

19. So am I..

... and you have impeccable taste. In fact, one of those tunes plays on my phone whenever my wife rings me up.

As for moving music, my offering is from the unfairly maligned prog rock genre, a tiny bit more edgy than classical but packed with power and nuance nonetheless. Those who are impatient may just listen to my favorite guitar solo of all time, like nothing you have ever heard, starting at 2:55, preferably several times because you will not take it all in at once

[Whisp]

6. Sacrifice - Lisa Gerad

[sendero]

20. Lisa is fantastic..

.. and my favorites of her work comes from her time with Dead Can Dance. Anyone not familiar with them should certainly go to youtube and give them a listen, you may hate them but if you love them you will REALLY love them.

[Whisp]

28. I really love DCD. They took over about 80% of my music listening for a while there.

Just fantastic stuff.

Before the internet I doubt I would even know about them. There were a couple years in the early nineties where I discovered so much wonderful music I would Never hear on the radio through friends on bulletin boards and such. Enigma was another treasure that I love to this day - the first album. Never tire of some.

[bif]

29. A lot of the artists on 4AD were great!

Including This Mortal Coil.

[Whisp]

45. cocteau twins. ahhhhhhh

http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM

i'm putting a space between you and tube because loading is getting prob.

[Systematic Chaos]

7. My big thing is progressive rock/metal.

Annie Haslam could make an album of singing the white pages and I'd buy it.

Beauty, to me, can also lie in near total discord. This song is one of the most jarring musical portraits of a mind in complete disintegration and grief I have ever heard.

I love the piano work in this ELP classic.

Yes produced one of their best songs ever in 1994.

And there you go with only a tiny fraction of the music which just touches me right down to the core.

[Whisp]

8. Anuna - Jerusalem

[Whisp]

9. In This Heart

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. 2nd movement of Franck's symphony

[TrogL]

11. Barber Adagio for Strings

For something longer, one of the Requiems like Berlioz or Faure.

[Initech]

12. Here's the most moving piece of music I know:

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Bach's Harpsichord Concerto #1 in d minor, 1st Movement

The 3rd movement is also very moving and powerful

[onestepforward]

14. The Impossible Dream

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. Tuck & Patti -- "Castles Made of Sand/Little Wing":

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[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Dead Can Dance -- "Rakim"

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[Soylent Brice]

36. right on!

[SwissTony]

41. Excellent choice, Sir.

My favourite DCD track - The Host of Seraphim

[tblue]

17. So hard to choose! But here's one:

End Titles from the soundtrack of The Joy Luck Club. Always makes me want to cry.

[SwissTony]

40. Thank you for this

I'd almost forgotten how wonderful Rachel's music can be.

This is just wonderful.

[hobbit709]

18. Two that get me.

[SalviaBlue]

50. Box of Rain

[sendero]

21. From the classical genre..

.. a favorite of mine, perhaps trite and common but moving as well.

on edit: Please don't judge the piece on this performance, I have heard many better!

[Paulie]

22. The Cavaliers drum corps performing their theme Over the Rainbow

If you have never experienced a drum corps show live, you should really try it. Imagine being so surrounded with sound your body vibrates.

[undeterred]

23. Sara Bareilles "Gravity"

[Agschmid]

27. Ohh good choice, thanks for the video link! n/t

[Glorfindel]

24. Bernstein conducting the finale of Mahler's 2nd Symphony

It's rather amazing, I think

[progressoid]

52. Yes, that is rather amazing.

[pipi_k]

25. That sort of thing being subjective and all...

here is my own contribution.

I think it's powerful.

and moving.

And how could Carlos Santana's guitar not be beautiful...

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Same for this one, which really should be heard through headphones...

[Agschmid]

26. Okay I have three...

For shear message, and I cry every time...

More current but just enjoyable, moving, and to me powerful...

Giving this one a graphic warning due to one scene.

[bif]

30. Scala- "The Blower's Daughter".

If this doesn't bring a tear to your eyes, you don't have a soul.

[HappyMe]

31. Joy!

[Brickbat]

32. This will break you.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

33. Placido Domingo singing the "Flower Song" from the opera Carmen

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one of the most beautiful and powerful cries of love I know.

Bach's Air On The G String by Sarah Chang, the piece that Procol Harum said inspired Whiter Shade of Pale.

And again American violinist virtuoso Sarah Chang (appointed Special State Department Cultural Envoy by President Obama) playing Meditation by Massenet, with Placido Domingo conducting.

John Coltrane playing "Naima", his love song to his wife.

Jimi Hendrix, "Angel", a love song to his mother who died when he was young and whose death caused him deep pain and loss throughout his young life.

And I always find the words, music, and performance of this tune deeply touching.

[cali]

34. Thanks for the thread. It's not classical but this just blows my mind: Elvis Costello, Levon Helm,

Ray LaMontagne, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson, Alan Toussaint performing The Weight. So much talent, so moving with Levon at the end of his life, beaming.

[progressoid]

53. Also like this from Spectacle: Neko Case "Prison Girls"

[backtoblue]

35. Yiruma is always beautiful : )

[Hell Hath No Fury]

37. Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma

I get chills when I listen to this --

[Ikonoklast]

38. This piece brings me to tears every time I hear it.

Tears of pure screaming terror.

I have nightmares of this guy following me in that relentessly leisurely fashion, strolling along, singing his happily insane murderer's death song, all the while carrying a bloody two-headed axe in his hands.


And I just. cannot. outrun him.



The Horror.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

44. He reminds me of an insane ventriloquist dummy come to life

like in a sequel to that Twilight Zone episode "The Dummy" where Cliff Robertson's dummy becomes life-sized and takes over the act.

[undeterred]

49. Quite possibly the creepiest thing I have ever listened to.

He has an incredible voice. They could use this as torture.

[datasuspect]

39. toast and marmalade for tea

[libodem]

42. Pacing the Cage

I don't know who does it ? Bruce Cobern? hmmm?

[LiberalElite]

43. Beethoven's 6th - Pastoral

A Youtube comment: "You know something's good when it's over 200 years old and it still has a million views on youtube."

[undeterred]

46. Aaron Copeland- Fanfare for the Common Man

[Sunlei]

47. great music posts love it all!!

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[Mr.Bill]

48. Don't know why, but this one always gets to me.

[PoliticAverse]

51. Astor Piazzolla, Verano Porteno - Summer

[progressoid]

54. Bartender

Happier version: